Sparkle! And while you are at it sparkle and spin. Add capital letters to that phrase and you've got one bling-of-a-book!  Sparkle and Spin: A Book About Words by Ann Rand and Paul Rand is a mid-century treasure that I…

  I’ve never understood apple pie and cheddar cheese. For me it’s apple pie and books. One day, after a long walk, John sat under a tree to rest—an apple tree, of course. What better way to begin pie making…

  I love fall. I love the sights. I love the scents. I love the texture of leaves crunching beneath my feet. I love the snap of ripe apples being twisted from branches. And I love the stories of fall.…

I say, "Dissection." And they say, "Yuk."   There are many reasonable reasons to object.  But there are also many reasonable reasons to overcome.    We should first stop to consider that dissection of a frog, for example, provides a…

For the past 30 days we've had bones on our minds. I don't know about your neighborhood, but mine is sporting bones on every lawn! And bones make me think of art. And when I think of art, I think…

Introducing F is for easy. F is for foil! But it's so much more… F is of course for fox, fish, frog. But it's also for feather and fur, a forest on fire, a flock of flamingos. F is a…

“If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost too.”                                                …

It began with a hefty dose of imagination, a glass pearl, and some strands of fabric. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the very first microbiologist never intended to be the world’s first microbiologist. He was actually a tradesman who had never studied…

If you are adventuring through our brand new unit, Taxonomy of Living Things: The Five Kingdoms of Life, meander with me for a moment… Echinoderm? Whoever said, “It’s all in a name,” sure got it right. Echinoderms got their name because…

Collagraphy is printmaking process that is related to the art of collage. Do you see the connection between the words? It is sometimes called "relief printing" because the subject to be printed is raised from the print block. You can print…